Norman Berdichevsky is a professional translator, writer and lecturer for several major cruise lines. Formerly a lecturer of Judaic studies at the University of Central Florida, he is the author of several books and lives in England.

Table of Contents

Preface

PART I. GEOGRAPHY AND ECONOMY

1. The Rise and Fall of the Danish Sea State

2. Danish Wind Power

3. Bornholm: Denmark's Easternmost Baltic Reach

4. The Faroe Islands: An Ancient Nordic North Atlantic Outpost

5. "Arctic Denmark": Greenland Yesterday and Today

6. How the Danish West Indies Became the U.S. Virgin Islands

7. The Gågader: Denmark's Pedestrian Streets

PART II. LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

8. Jewish Provincial Cemeteries: A Cultural Landmark to Tolerance

9. Jutland vs. Copenhagen

10. The Danish Language

11. The Rebild Celebration, Danish Americans, and U.S.-Denmark Relations

12. Hygge and Happiness

13. Food and Drink

PART III. FAMOUS DANISH PERSONALITIES

14. Piet Hein: Renaissance Man

15. Victor Borge: The Clown Prince

16. N.F.S. Grundtvig: Spiritual Father of the Nation

17. Hans Christian Andersen

18. Søren Kierkegaard

19. Arne Sørensen and Danish Unity

20. Arne Jacobsen: The Father of Danish Design

21. Tycho Brahe: Astronomer without a Telescope

22. Niels Bohr and the Copenhagen Mystery

23. Karen Blixen: From Rungsted to Kenya and Back

24. Queen Margrethe II

PART IV. POLITICS AND HISTORY

25. Canute and the Danelaw in England

26. The German- Danish Border Question, 1815-1919

27. The German- Danish Border Question, 1920 to the Present

28. The Yellow Star Legend and Kings Christian X and Boris III

29. The "Jewish Question" and the Danish Minority in Nazi Germany

30. The Danish- Swedish Sibling Rivalry

Bibliography
Index